The potential departure of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers from Congress creates an opening in Republican House leadership that's already drawing interest from a number of ambitious members looking for a promotion within the GOP caucus.

President-elect Donald Trump could continue working on the NBC show “The New Celebrity Apprentice” while he is in the White House next year, a top aide said, saying it is something he could do in his leisure time.

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday in Canada told a crowd of roughly 300 dignitaries and officials that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had an obligation to take the torch from President Barack Obama to help champion liberal-democratic ideas.

TRUMP CABINET PICKS SIGNAL DEREGULATION MOVES ARE COMING: Business leaders are predicting a dramatic unraveling of regulations on everything from overtime pay to power-plant emission rules as Donald Trump seeks to fill his cabinet with determined adversaries of the agencies they will lead. The President-elect’s pick Thursday to head the Labor Department, fast-food executive Andrew […]

President-elect Donald Trump renewed his attack on China’s economic and political practices at a rally Thursday, showing he is prepared to risk a more adversarial relationship in a bid to get the Chinese to “play by the rules.”